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Feb-24-13
 | | waustad: <HeHateMe>It appears that they are no longer married, if her WIKI page is accurate. |
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Feb-24-13
 | | HeMateMe: Pascal seems to be retired from chess, putting his brains into the business or IT world. She still wants to play. The separation brought on by all the travel can be tough on a marriage. |
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Mar-02-13
 | | waustad: I was looking for games for the women's team championships, but today is arrival day, not the first day for games. As usual, the FIDE site gives the days of the games but doesn't mention the time. I did find a city with a time zone widget that is the same time zone with Novosibirsk. Astana, Kazakhstan is at GMT + 6. |
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Mar-02-13
 | | HeMateMe: ...that would be 11 hours earlier than EST, USA? |
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Mar-02-13
 | | cro777: Women's World Chess Team Championship - Astana (Kazakhstan) 2013 Round 1 starts on Sunday (March 3) at 15:00 local time. Participants: China, Russia, Ukraine, India, Romania, France, USA, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey 4 players + 1 reserve player
Each team shall play one match against every other team. The place will be determined by the number of match points (2-1-0). |
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Mar-02-13
 | | cro777: Irina will play on board 2 for the United States.
1 Anna Zatonskykh (2491)
2 Irina Krush (2460)
3 Tatev Abrahamyan (2300)
4 Sabina Foisor (2313)
5 Viktorija Ni (2263) |
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Mar-02-13
 | | cro777: The Russian team (which won the Chess Olympiad last September and took three silver medals in previous Women’s World team championships) will play without two top players, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva. A symmetrical reply from their main rival - China will be playing without Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue. As a result, the competition will be much tougher: at least four teams will be in serious contention for gold (sorted by average rating) - Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and China. Women’s World Champion Anna Ushenina will play on board 1 for Ukraine and it will be her first official event since she won the title. |
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Mar-03-13
 | | waustad: Here is a link to the web site for the team champs: http://astana2013.fide.com/ |
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Mar-03-13
 | | cro777: In Round 1 Irina defeated WIM Gulmira Dauletova of Kazakhstan (USA-Kazakhstan 2-2) Krush- Dauletova. Position after 71...Kxc4
 click for larger viewAccording to endgame tablebases this is draw.
The game continued
72.f5 Kd5 73.g4 Rb1 74.Kh5 Rg1?? (Loses. 74...Re1 is draw) 75.g5 Ke5 76.f6?? (76.Kg6 wins) Ke6 77.g6 Rg2?? (77...Rh1+ is draw) 78.Kh6 Rh2+ 79.Kg7 Rf2 80.Bd8 Rd2
 click for larger view81.f7 Rd7 82.Kg8 1-0
Anna Zatonskykh and Irina Krush at the beginning of Round 1. http://astana2013.fide.com/images/s... |
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| Mar-10-13 | | Illogic: Krush has been the star of the U.S. team so far, still undefeated and beating Kosteniuk today. |
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| Mar-10-13 | | uzeromay: Yes, she's making us proud. Kudos!! Keep up the good work. |
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| Mar-11-13 | | uzeromay: Continues to impress. Just beat women's world champion Anna Ushenina. Great job! |
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Mar-11-13
 | | notyetagm: Yep, she just beat Women World Champions Kosteniuk and Ushenina back to back. |
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Mar-11-13
 | | waustad: With a performance rating of 2602 before the win today over Ushenina, this could be a GM norm for her. |
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Mar-11-13
 | | tamar: United States struggling, but Krush shines today. |
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| Mar-12-13 | | uzeromay: Congrats to Irina Krush for winning first place on your board in Astana. Fabulous performance. |
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| Mar-12-13 | | SVarden: I agree. It was a gutsy performance with a 2607 performance rating. But can a player earn a GM norm in a team event? After all, one's opponent in a given game might force a draw in a superior position if the draw secures a team victory. Does anyone know? Thanks. |
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| Mar-12-13 | | hellopolgar: Go Irina, she just got her second GM norm! |
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Mar-12-13
 | | waustad: Yes <Svarden> team events can be used for norms. You can find out the rules here: http://www.fide.com/component/handb... |
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| Mar-12-13 | | Just Another Master: Well done Irina, please dont give up the commentary though, GingerGm might have been your good luck charm, as long as your mark:} |
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| Mar-12-13 | | Travis Bickle: Hello Irina, we used to play on WorldChessNetwork 2 minute blitz. I miss your friday night audio shows! Congrats on your 2nd GM norm!! Travis ; P |
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Mar-17-13
 | | HeMateMe: Congrats to Irina, gold medal on board 2 (ahead of Ushenina and Kosteniuk!)at the world championships in Kazakhstan. Nice photos over on chessbase. |
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Mar-22-13
 | | Jambow: Ok I'm hoping for an indepth interview on the USCF website. Irina put on a show winning against a former womens world champion, followed by defeating the current womens world champion. The game against Ushenina looked like a 2700 player very impressive. Irina seems like she works hard which is finally catching up with her. Kudos and congrats young lady, 2500 elo on the horizion and hopefully the coveted GM nors needed also. |
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| May-06-13 | | hellopolgar: <Jul-14-10 hellopolgar: The skill-levels and ratings of Irina Krush and Anna Zatonskih are strikingly similar, but looking at both of their notable games, I do think that a well-performing-Irina is a tad stronger than a well-performing-Anna.> it looks like I couldn't have been more spot-on...
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... |
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May-13-13
 | | HeMateMe: Well done Irina. Congratulations on winning the 2013 USA championship. It was an absolutlely Fischeresque performance, so I think the tournament organizers should compromise and give you $32K. [One mans opinion.] Wouldn't it have been exciting to have the title decided on a blitz five minute tie breaker? (Just kidding.) |
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